Speakers Dr Michael Fitzpatrick GP; author, The Tyranny of Health: doctors and the regulation of lifestyle and Defeating Austism: a damaging delusion; commentator on medical matters, politics, religion and the history of ideas
Professor Raanan Gillon emeritus professor, medical ethics, Imperial College London; author, Philosophical Medical Ethics; senior editor, Principles of Health Care Ethics
Professor David Oliver senior lecturer, elderly care medicine and consultant physician, University of Reading/Royal Berkshire Hospital; visiting professor, medicine for older people, City University, London
Adam Wishart award-winning writer and documentary maker, The Price of Life and Monkeys, Rats and Me; author, One in Three: a son’s journey into the history and science of cancer
Chair: Helen Birtwistle resources and communications manager, Institute of Ideas & Pfizer Debating Matters Competition